landing and setting up the KHCB for the share festival…

…and receiving news from christian who’s in helsinki at the moment.

thanks to ella esque for the pictures

e.

Broken to pieces …

I just arrived in Helsinki and started to setup the work than i opend the crates and thats what i have seen.

I’m a bit depressed right now, ’cause the work can’t be rebuilt in one day and i am sitting in Helsinki without any work to do.

People are nice here and everything works fine, also the schedule of pixelache sounds good but i have so much work do to at home that i thought of rebooking my flight to get home earlier…
Pikselache
I hope that the insurance will cover the damage.

Donde esta mi cerveza

C

for the first time in the history of 5voltcore, christian and me have to go completely seperate ways: next week christian goes to the pixelache festival in helsinki to show “saving myself”and i will go to show the KHCB at the share festivalin turin. yeah

also, the KHCB teaser is finally finished:

Liveimage from the exhibition at the Kunstahlle Project Space Vienna, updated every 30min check out the new project “Saving Myself” (until now in german only)

i’m proud to announce that i recieved 3 nominations for the Knife.Hand.Chop.Bot: It’s nominated for the Künstlerhallen Wien Award 07 (Vienna), the Transmediale Award 08(Berlin), and the Share Prize 08 (Turin).

This is the announcement of the Share Price, i post it because i like its optimistic and euphoric style:

SHARE PRIZE 2008: jury statment

• Bruce Sterling, chairman, novelist, journalist, art and design critic, Austin.

• Piero Gilardi, artist, Torino.

• Stefano Mirti, architect and interaction designer, IDLab, Milano.

• Anne Nigten, co-organizer of the Dutch Electronic Art Festival (DEAF) and manager of the V-2 Lab, Rotterdam.

This has been a very good year for the physical and the actual in digital culture.

In the 1990s, virtual art, website art and Internet art would have dominated our entries. But in 2007, five of our six prize finalists involve a physical, hands-on encounter with digital technology — and we mean it is digital art that must be literally touched and gripped by the hands of artists and audience.

The sixth piece is driven by living human breath.

It has recently been said that \”cyberspace is turning itself out,\” that \”the virtual is becoming the actual.\” We think this years’ chosen artists may have proven this thesis. They have created extraordinary works where digital images crawl out of screens and onto human fingers, where digital sound samples leave the computer to become solid chunks of wood carved on industrial lathes. We also have a large, synaesthetic, immersive installation, two multi-user interaction pieces suitable for groups, and one of the scariest and most physically confrontational pieces of electronic art yet created.

Digital art is getting heavier, more immediate, embodied and physically realized. Digital technology can manufacture now, and digital culture is changing our world in ways that we can touch, grip and feel.

It seems to us that these new trends favor a city long known for its industry and its high-tech craft, Torino, the World Capital of Design 2008. The chosen theme for our digital culture festival is \”Manufacturing.\”

We judges will be back in March 2008 to decide the winner among these six excellent finalists. We look forward to the best and most ambitious SHARE Festival ever.

The selected artists are:

Emanuel Andel, Knife.Hand.Chop.Bot, Austria
http://www.5voltcore.com/index.html?/content/khcb.html

D3D, Virtual Identity Process, Italia
http://www.master-naba-d3d.net/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=64

Yamada Kentaro, Tampopo, Giappone
http://www.kentaroyamada.com/toshare

Owl Project, Sound Lathe workshop, Gran Bretagna
http://variableg.org.uk/owlweb/soundlatheworkshop.htm

Scenocosme, SphèrAléas, Francia
http://www.spheraleas.com

Christine Sugrue, Delicate Boundaries, U.S.A
http://csugrue.com/db_Share

We just arrived back from the Piksel Festival from Bergen, Norway and proudly present this scan from a local newspaper, that printed a big picture of christian and his work:

Bergens Tidende, 17.11.2007